The worldwide intellectual property rights and UK programme library of quiz show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' are to be sold by Complete Communications Corporation (CCCL), the parent company of UK... [more]

First Technology has sold its crash test dummies business to private equity firm HgCapital for £50m, as parent company Honeywell plans to focus on First Technology's gas sensing and automotive operati... [more]

BOC-Linde, the merging UK and German industrial gas companies, could sell their electronic gases unit BOC Edwards once the deal completes. Edwards is very likely to stand on the disposal list after th... [more]

The Board of Holidaybreak, the European specialist holidaygroup, confirmed in a statement that it has received several expressions of interest to acquire the group's Camping Division, Eurocamp. Any p... [more]

Northern Foods, the UK-listed group which has announced itis to undergo a strategic review, could dispose of its biscuits business. The company is likely to sell off one of its three divisions - pizz... [more]

GUS, the UK-listed retail and business group, is rumoured tobe selling its credit checking unit, Experian. The bidder is rumoured to be a private equity group. Experian was also under bid speculation... [more]

Amec, the UK-based engineering and support services group, has chosen 15 bidders out of 40 interested parties for its French unit Amec Spie. The bidders are both trade buyers and private equity firms.... [more]

Caparo, the engineering business owned by Labour peer Lord Paul, has placed its Armstrong subsidiary into receivership because of a £36m pension scheme deficit. Armstrong, which makes vehicle componen... [more]

Cytomyx Holdings is to sell its Cytomyx Limited subsidiary to Serologicals UK for £4m, in order to focus on its US-based biorepository business.... [more]

Rentokil Initial has sold its Canadian manned guarding business to Garda World Security Corporation for £30m.... [more]

Royal Dutch Shell has drawn up a shortlist of bidders forthe auction of its liquefied petroleum gas division. The shortlisted bidders are said to be: Total, the listed French oil company; Ultrapar Pa... [more]

SkyePharma, the UK-listed pharmaceuticals group, has appointed UBS to handle the sale of its US-based injectables division. The division could command a price up to $100m. Abbott Laboratories, the US-... [more]

Bright Futures, the mobility retailer, is to sell its trading subsidiaries - including Cascade Ventures, Mobility Group, Youreable, Scootermart Mobility Centres and Ortho-Kinetics - to Sussex Wellbein... [more]

Struggling healthcare group Provalis is considering the sale of its medical diagnostics division and winding up the company.... [more]

Northern Bank has sold its mortgage, deposit and current account operations in the Isle of Man to the Isle of Man Bank for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Berkeley Berry Birch has sold Berkeley Independent Advisers and Berry Birch Noble Financial Planning to Tenet Group of Leeds for up to £2.3m.... [more]

Vodafone Group Plc has announced it is in talks to sell its Japanese segment, which is experiencing a decline in profitability. Vodafone has been under pressure from its shareholders for failing to tu... [more]

Rank has been forced to write down its DVD-making business, Deluxe Media Services, by a further £80m after warning it may take another year to exit the loss-making division. The leisure group, which l... [more]

ICI, could be considering disposing of some of its lower-margin businesses. UBS have reported that Quest, the perfume and flavourings business may be up for sale list among other operations bought fro... [more]

Honeywell, the New Jersey-based industrial conglomerate, is expected to put First Technology's crash test dummies business up for sale after completing its acquisition of the UK listed group. Honeywel... [more]